Wow! First of all Greg, thanks for sticking with us. Second, what a great kit to tackle. We will be following along.

That looks like an amazing kit. I'll be following.

GREG! SUPER!!! I always looked forward to each of your builds, and will eagerly follow this one.
Great to read that the forums will continue for another year while the pursuit of a permanent solution continues.

Glad to see you building again and sharing your knowledge with us.
I enjoy seeing your breaks from the norm when you change design aspects within your builds.
I will be following along.

Rich

I'll be tagging along to see what I can pick up in kit building. This place sure beats RMH. The noise to signal ratio went way up when they came over from the Kalmbach (Model Railroader) forum. Lot of BS not even concerning modeling. Sure drives the forum stats up higher when doing a Google search for the place.

Bernd

Greg, I'm thrilled you're doing another build.
I have that kit and got about a third of the into it before I stopped.
I still have another new kit and who knows, maybe I'll build it one day.
No promises.

This will be fun to watch.

Greg wonderful to see you doing a new build. As usual I'll be following along.

Looking forward to this one, Greg.

Cheers, Mark.

Welcome back, Greg. You've been missed.

I'm looking forward to watching you build Skinner's Row.

Mike

Hi everyone, well I made a trip to the hobby shop yesterday to get some paints that I needed for this first building we are instructed to build in this kit.
Brodies Tavern on the first floor and the Village Print shop on the second floor.
I will be modifying this first structure from it's original design a little.
All of these structures on Skinner's Row are serviced by a rail siding that runs behind each of the buildings.
I am not adding this rail siding to my version of this kit.
So the Brodies Tavern has a covered loading dock which goes right over the track.
See the photo below.

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So since I'm not adding the rail siding I'm going to remove the roof portion of this structure.
Here are the walls that will make up this tavern & the print shop.

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This structure also has an elevator, which I assume the print shop uses for it's business upstairs.
Here are the walls that make up the elevator.




So I begin by cutting off the s sides of the covered canopy for the rear loading dock.



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The instructions tell us to now measure up from the bottom of these wall sections an 1-7/8" of an inch and mark that line with a pencil.
This line will be the deviding line for the 2 colour paint scheme for this structure.
The top portion will be painted using "Floquils" Depot Buff and the bottom portion will be painted Depot Olive.
I still have a bottle of "Floquils" Depot Buff so that was lucky for me.
However since Floquils paints are no longer available the other colours used on this structure will have to be similar colours from other brands of paint.
So according to my Floquil colour chart - cross reference Depot Buff has a similar colour from "Humbrol" No. 81 Matt Pale

For the bottom portion of the walls I did not have the "Floquils" Depot Olive so I used " Vallejo" Flat Green 70.968
I started with the depot buff first, painting up to my light pencil line and using the closest clapboard to the pencil line as a guide.



I then did the Flat green on the lower sections of walls.

Next I spray painted the backside of the tavern only wall with flat black paint.



The instructions then suggested to add the nail holes into the wall using a pounce wheel figure ! of the instructions show you where those lines go.
I used a steel ruler to make certain my nail hole were straight. It's also a good idea to practice using a pounce wheel on a scrap piece of wood to get the feel of it.
You don't want to push down to hard or to soft, so it's good to practice on some scrap first.



This is how my walls came out looking after I was done pouncing with the wheel.

Next I sorted out what windows & doors that would get used on this particular structure and painted them.
The instructions suggest using "Polly Scale" Zinc chrome primer. Once again you can no longer get "Polly Scale" paints.
So I used "Vallejo" Burnt Red 70.814 for my widows & doors and 1/16 sq. corner trim.



I will drybrush these widow & doors with white paint to help weather them more once they have dried.
Here's how this slightly changed colour combination will eventually look on this structure.



That's all I have for now.
Thanks for having a look!

Greg